People have been reading books for over 500 years, in more or less the
same format. Book technology has changed in some measure during that
time. Fonts have become more readable. Books have become more
affordable. Still, the general form of the book has remained much the
same.
But the arrival of e-readers, such as the Kindle 2 and the
Sony eBook, offers the possibility of a major change. First, people
may shift to reading existing books on those e-readers. Second, the
shift may lead them to change the way they use books, for instance by
letting people have many reference works at their fingertips. Third, the
shift may change the content of books. And, fourth, the shift may
change who publishes books, and sometimes which books are published.
April 2010 Vol. 108 No. 6 THE REVIEW
Foreword: The Future of Books Related to the Law?
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